Education: The New McCoy

The current boom in "continuing education" is such that many U.S. campuses enroll far more part-time adult students than full-time undergraduates. A case in point is McCoy College, the pioneering (1909) night division of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, which now has 6,000 students, nearly three times the university's daytime enrollment. McCoy's students mostly toil to upgrade themselves economically. Yet more and more yearn to go beyond bread-and-butter specialization. As one McCoy engineering graduate put it: "I'd like to take more courses in liberal arts. I'd like to be a person—not a machine that can work problems."

Last week Johns Hopkins, backed by...

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